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RIZE Massachusetts Foundation announces three new board members
RIZE Massachusetts Foundation (RIZE), an independent nonprofit foundation working to end the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts, today announced the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors. The three additions expand the number of directors to eleven. Joining the board are:
Ken Casey, Dropkick Murphys. He formed the band in 1996. In the past 24 years they have sold over 10 million records worldwide and are constantly touring the world playing to their loyal passionate fan base. Casey is in long term recovery and has a unique perspective on substance use disorder through the band's engagement with young people as well as the work with others as part of his own recovery. Also, through the band's own charity foundation, Casey has supported local organizations that offer a comprehensive approach to alcohol and drug addiction. While the Dropkick Murphys are widely thought of as a rowdy punk rock band, the group's latest album deals with the Massachusetts opioid crisis which has directly touched the lives of many of the band members' friends and families.
Reshma Kewalramani, MD, Executive Vice President & Chief Medical Officer, Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Kewalramani oversees clinical development, global regulatory affairs, medical affairs, drug safety and other related functions, and is responsible for developing, advising and driving execution of Vertex's clinical development programs. She will become the company's president and chief executive officer in April 2020. Prior to Vertex, she spent more than 12 years at Amgen, holding a variety of senior leadership roles across research and development.
Michael Tang, MD, MBA, Chief Behavioral Health Officer, The Dimock Center. Dr. Tang has worked at the Dimock Center since July 2014, originally as Clinical Director of Behavioral Health Integration and most recently as Chief Behavioral Health Officer. He oversees a continuum of behavioral health care services including detox, crisis stabilization, recovery homes, family shelter, and group homes for developmentally disabled adults. He is a pediatrician, child psychiatrist, and adult psychiatrist.
"We are grateful that Ken, Reshma, and Michael agreed to serve on the RIZE Board," said Steve Pollock, President and CEO of DentaQuest and Chair of the RIZE Board of Directors. "Each of these leaders brings unique perspectives on how to combat the opioid crisis and support the organizations that are on the front lines of treating people with opioid use disorder, and we are fortunate to have them on the team."
"These fabulous additions to our Board will help strengthen and complement the talented group that we have already," said Julie Burns, President and CEO, RIZE Massachusetts Foundation. "We appreciate they are so giving of their time, expertise, and passion to help end the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts."


The first month of my leave from work. I started my first full day of writing on February 4. In the first week I did almost 50 pages of work.
Despite the good start I finished the month at 100 pages after a binge of 15 pages in one day.
I think that the reason for it was that it was hard to get the story set up and the characters established. In addition there were still many elements of the world that were developed at this time, or changed. I spent a whole day fiddling with the map of the world.


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Weather Telematics to Launch Predictiv SA Road Safety Alert Platform
Apr 2, 2019 | 2019, News
Toronto and Ottawa, Canada, April 02, 2019 – Internet of Things Inc. (TSX-V: ITT; OTC: INOTF; FSE: 7iT) ("IoT Inc." or the "Company"), operates data-driven industrial IoT companies that deliver significant benefit to the verticals they serve. The Company is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Weather Telematics Inc. ("WTX"), will introduce Predictiv SA (Safety Alerts), the industry-leading road safety alerting platform for safer mobility. Predictiv SA provides drivers with a single alert when road conditions ahead of the vehicle are predicted to be dangerous, requiring immediate driver intervention. This predictive safety alert helps drivers avoid, manage or mitigate dangerous road conditions before they occur.
Predictiv SA is a new extension of WTX's Predictiv RC global platform that delivers "micro-scale" mapping resolution. This advanced capability enables Weather Telematics to improve the safety of current connected and electric vehicles while providing the essential data needed to operate autonomous vehicles in all weather conditions.
The Predictiv SA API combines road weather conditions (dry, wet, snowy, icy) and road weather hazards, (including hydroplaning, wind, visibility), into one consolidated road safety "score". The driver (and/or vehicle) only receive the Predictiv SA Safety Alert when the combined dangers exceed minimum risk thresholds, minimizing driver distraction.
For connected and autonomous vehicle OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, WTX's Predictiv RC and new Predictiv SA help manage adverse road conditions for safer driving, while predicting road weather conditions ahead of the vehicle to mitigate risk and ensure safer route selection.
"Many of today's vehicles are capable of detecting dangerous road weather conditions near the vehicle, but in some cases it's too late for the driver to take action", said Bob Moran, CEO of Weather Telematics. "Predictiv SA has been specifically designed to give drivers and vehicles predictive awareness of hazards before they pose life-threatening risks. Combining our Predictiv RC and Predictiv SA products provides unsurpassed levels of safety for drivers and positions Weather Telematics as an industry leader in AI-based mobility technologies".
About Weather Telematics Inc.
Weather Telematics Inc. is an IoT data science company offering road safety data products for industrial and government markets. Weather Telematics uses a proprietary vehicle-mounted mobile IoT sensor network and AI machine learning to generate historical, real-time and predictive road weather conditions for road hazard risk alerts and dynamic routing applications. Their industry-leading Predictiv RC and Predictiv SA platforms mitigate weather risk, reduce traffic congestion and make connected and autonomous navigation safer in all types of road conditions.
Learn more: www.weathertelematics.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/weathertx
About Internet of Things Inc.
Internet of Things Inc. operates data driven industrial IoT companies that deliver significant benefit to the verticals they serve. The Company owns Weather Telematics Inc., has a joint venture channel partnership with Shanghai New Hope Data Technology Co. Ltd., and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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Internet of Things Inc.
Ron Shuttleworth, Chief Executive Officer
Email: Rshuttleworth@iotintl.com
Learn more: www.iotintl.com
Weather Telematics Inc.
Michael Keefe, Chief Strategy Officer
Email: mkeefe@weathertelematics.com
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NEITHER THE TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE NOR ITS REGULATION SERVICES PROVIDER (AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN THE POLICIES OF THE TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE) ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE
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Wanda Evers, daughter of Charles, announces run for Jackson mayor
A couple of months ago, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba announced that he would be seeking re-election come June of 2021, but now it seems as if it won't be without a little competition.
Wanda Evers, the daughter of late civil rights leader Charles Evers, announced Wednesday morning on WMPR 90.1 that she is throwing her hat in the ring for mayor of Mississippi's capital city.
In the interview, co-host David Watkins asked Evers what can be done to put a halt to Jackson's problems. In what was a surprise to both everyone in the studio and listeners around the metro area, she replied by saying, "I'm going to run for mayor."
"I live here. I lived in west Jackson. I have a business in west Jackson. With the help of the community and the city, we can turn Jackson around," Evers continued. "Vote for somebody that is going to do right by the city of Jackson."
Municipal elections are currently scheduled for next summer with Lumumba and Evers the only two candidates thus far. To watch the interview in which Evers announced her decision, click here.
The post Wanda Evers, daughter of Charles, announces run for Jackson mayor appeared first on News Mississippi.


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The gross injustices of the MCE examination system
Press Statement by Ketua Pembangkang, Lim Kit Siang, on 26 March 1973:
Call on all students, parents and educational organisations to make their voice heard and felt by the authorities against the gross injustices of the MCE examination system.
I am glad that a few school boards of management, old boys' associations and students have acted positively by publicly making their views and voice heard and felt by the authorities against the present gross injustices of the M.C.E. examination system – where tens of thousands are failed just because of Bahasa Malaysia despite a string of distinctions in other subjects.
Even more students, parents, old boys' associations and school management boards must take up the public call urging the Ministry of Education to institute a public inquiry into the MCE examination system and to give conditional passes to all those who have failed just because of Bahasa Malaysia paper.
More information which has come in has shown how empty and hollow are the views of those who say that the students are themselves to be blamed for their lack of sufficient interest in the subject.
I have just received a memorandum from Jerantut, where there is 100% failure of all the non-Malay students who sat for the M.C.E. last year from Sekolah Menengah Jerantut – although many of them scored distinctions in other subjects.
In a memorandum which all the unsuccessful non-Malay students of the Jerantut Secondary School has sent to the Minister of Education, the results of all the students in Bahasa Malaysia subject in L.C.E. examination, Form IV school final examination and during the 1972 School Trial M.C.E. examination were given.
Thus, for all these non-Malay students, which number 30, only two students failed the 1972 School Trial M.C.E. examination in Bahasa Malaysia. In fact, there was one student who scored A2 in the School Mock MCE examination in Bahasa Malaysia.
There can be no good reason, therefore, why all these students apart from two, who passed the School Mock MCE Bahasa Malaysia subject should fail altogether.
This is the case with other schools, where students who have distinguished themselves in Bahasa Malaysia in school yet fail in the M.C.E. examination.
When I was in Penang yesterday, I was told that in Chung Ling High School, the student who last year won the Bahasa Malaysia essay contest for the whole school also failed in the MCE Bahasa Malaysia. This is unbelievable.
The injustices are too many and blatant to be explained away, and the Ministry of Education must do them justice by giving all MCE candidates conditional passes if they had merely failed in Bahasa Malaysia.
In the meantime, I call on all students, parents, old boys' associations and school boards to send me details of the failures in their schools and areas, so that the public and country can fully understand the enormity and magnitude of the unjust MCE examination system. They can address their letters to me, Pejabat Ketua Pembangkang, Parliament, Kuala Lumpur; or to 77 Road 20/9, Paramount Garden, Petaling Jaya.
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import com.blazebit.persistence.integration.hibernate.base.CustomCollectionPersister;
import org.hibernate.MappingException;
import org.hibernate.cache.CacheException;
import org.hibernate.cache.spi.access.CollectionRegionAccessStrategy;
import org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionImplementor;
import org.hibernate.engine.spi.SubselectFetch;
import org.hibernate.loader.collection.CollectionInitializer;
import org.hibernate.mapping.Collection;
import org.hibernate.persister.collection.OneToManyPersister;
import org.hibernate.persister.spi.PersisterCreationContext;

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    public CustomOneToManyPersister(Collection collectionBinding, CollectionRegionAccessStrategy cacheAccessStrategy, PersisterCreationContext creationContext) throws MappingException, CacheException {
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Elizabeth Mohr, Archdiocese of the Twin Cities asks court to reduce window for victims to file claims, St. Paul Pioneer Press
April 15, 2015 /in Minnesota, MN Post Window /by SOL Reform
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, which has filed for bankruptcy protection in the face of clergy abuse claims, is asking the court to sidestep a state law and reduce the window for victims' claims by about nine months.
Minnesota lawmakers decided that victims of past child sexual abuse should have more time to file lawsuits and hold their abusers accountable, no matter how long ago the abuse occurred. The Legislature suspended the statute of limitations and created a three-year window, ending in May 2016.
The archdiocese argued in its motion that, since whistleblower efforts gained momentum in 2013, followed by the Legislature's passage of the Child Victims Act, church officials have reviewed personnel files to identify accused priests and possible victims; the church has disclosed names of "credibly accused" clergy; and the issue of clergy abuse has been covered by media.
In short, publicity has alerted victims who might wish to file a claim.
The archdiocese is seeking an Aug. 3 deadline for victims to file claims with the court. The legislative window, set by the Child Victim Act, ends May 25, 2016.
In a statement regarding the deadline request, Archbishop John Nienstedt said the deadline would "add certainty" and would speed up the reorganization process.
"We recognize the proposed claim filing deadline is sooner than the end of the lifting of the statute of limitations for sexual abuse, so we will be extensively publicizing the approved date locally and nationally so all claimants will have a fair opportunity to participate in the process," Nienstedt's statement said. "We continue to pray for all those hurt by sexual abuse."
Attorneys representing abuse victims have objected to the church's request.
The church's "negligent conduct" caused the abuse, attorneys for victims argued. Then, when lawsuits were filed, the archdiocese "fought survivors in court and used the statute of limitations defense to get the vast majority of abuse cases dismissed," according to the papers submitted by the firm of Jeff Anderson, who represents many victims.
Because of the archdiocese's actions, the Legislature passed the law extending the statute of limitations, the Anderson objection said. "Given the Archdiocese's negligent conduct, it should not be allowed to cut short survivors' rights under the Child Victims Act."
The Anderson attorneys argued that, even if the window for claims was reduced for the archdiocese, victims are still allowed the legislative deadline to file claims against parishes. And, based on similar bankruptcy cases, the existing claims likely won't be resolved until that May 25, 2016, deadline anyway, their objection said.
The creditors committee, comprised primarily of clergy abuse victims, also objected to the church's request.
Asking the court to set an earlier deadline is asking the court to disregard "a deliberate legislative process" and "clear legislative intent," the creditors committee argued. "The Archdiocese's request is unnecessary, unprecedented, violates public policy, and should be denied."
The issue will be heard Thursday at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis.
Other issues to be discussed at the hearing include: a request by local parishes to create a formal parish committee, making them an official player in the bankruptcy proceedings; the format for sexual abuse claims form to be used by victims; and approval of confidentiality procedures for victims' claims, which is being challenged by the Star Tribune.
The archdiocese filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in January, making it the 14th Catholic organization to file bankruptcy. Church officials called it the best option to address pending and future claims of clergy sexual abuse "fairly and with finality."
Almost immediately after the bankruptcy filing, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Kressel ordered the archdiocese into mediation with the creditors, primarily victims of sexual abuse, and the archdiocese's insurance companies.
The judge last week granted the archdiocese an extension to file its Chapter 11 reorganization plan by Nov. 30.
Archdiocese of the Twin Cities asks court to reduce window for victims to file claims _ Grand Forks Herald
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Can we talk about wealth inequality? I think it's a top three problem within the United States.
Obviously, many disagree with me. In The Upside of Inequality, Edward Conard effectively makes the capitalist's case for the importance of unequal results in household wealth. At the risk of my simplifying a book-length argument, I'd say Conard justifies his view on the upside of inequality in two main ways.
First, we need unequal incentives to push innovation and risk-taking, the engine of a capitalist economy. Without the promise of outsized rewards, where would the urge for improvement come from? Take away the outsized rewards through taxation and redistribution and we remove the innovative engine of the economy, writes Conard. Ok, I'll admit, I'm sympathetic to that idea.
Second, Conard argues, we need concentrations of wealth in the hands of risk-taking capitalists, to fund the innovative ideas of entrepreneurs who have more talent than money. Take away the piles of money in the hands of capitalists, and you remove the fuel from the engine. Ok, I find this argument of Conard's plausible as well.
I don't say I celebrate Conard's view because of any ideological attachment to capitalism. I say it because practically speaking the miracle of lifting billions of people out of poverty in recent decades happened under market-based economies that innovated and encouraged hard work and risk-taking. Countries that squash markets and enforce a state-driven equality – Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Zimbabwe come to mind – tend towards horrific poverty.
But I still worry about inequality.
In households with children under age 18, a recent New York Times piece explained, the bottom 50 percent of households actually have negative net worth. They have more debt than savings or assets.
Wealth correlates strongly with the likelihood of attending and graduating from college.
A college degree correlates strongly with higher lifetime earnings.
No higher degree means a much harder path to attaining or maintaining a middle class life.
Those steps alone suggest that at the bottom rung of society, poverty begets poverty, and inequality tends to beget more inequality.
Meanwhile, at the upper end of the economic ladder, the power of compound investment returns, reduced taxes on intergeneration wealth transfers and favorable tax rates on dividends and capital gains, tend to maintain the status quo among wealthy households. Wealth begets wealth. I don't like the idea of stagnation at the top and bottom.
Further into The Upside of Inequality, Conard challenges deeply held beliefs. Traditional measurements of the lack of wealth for the bottom 50 percent of American households miss a key factor. Namely, measuring consumption at the bottom half – due to social safety net programs including government transfers Medicare and Social Security – shows a strong reduction in poverty over the last 20 years. If we measure consumption instead of wealth our society looks far less unequal.
Conard also makes some disturbing counter-arguments about the usefulness of investing in education to overcome economic immobility. His skeptical arguments will make people on both the left and right of the political spectrum uncomfortable.
My fondest wish on this topic is not to bash capitalism – or socialism for that matter – but to ask: Can we talk about a middle ground?
Conard worries about killing – through redistribution and taxation – the golden goose that has raised billions out of poverty. I worry about the fact that negative median net worth of the bottom 50 percent of households in America. A hollowed-out middle class has both economic effects and effects on social cohesion.
I'm worried that the concentration of wealth in the United States at the very top is too high and getting higher. In developing that view, I look to Thomas Piketty's 2014 masterpiece Capital, in which he shows we're on trend to return to 19thCentury Gilded Age levels of wealth-concentration in the US. I don't love the idea of an entrenched aristocracy in America.
While Conard celebrates the positive economic effects of that inequality – more pools of wealth encourage more innovation, which leads to economic growth – I'm worried about the moral problem of an entrenched aristocracy permanently separated from the other 99 percent of society.
My view: I'm ok with some inequality. I'm a capitalist. To the extent more hard work and more talent leads to more money for some people than others, I'm fine with that. That's great.
I'm not ok with permanent inequality, or inter-generational inequality, or inequality that suggests a fixed, rigged, game. If being born into poverty is a life-sentence to an underclass, then inequality is something I'm less ok with.
What do I want in terms of a conversation? I want people on my side of the debate – people who think inequality is a top problem – to read more smart people on the other side of the debate, like Edward Conard. Because if you don't know where your own assumptions are weak or wrong, it's hard to enact change.
Of course I also want folks worried about "creeping Socialism" in America to consider the moral consequences of a system in which children don't get enough to eat, and the next generation's children might not either. You can talk all you want about "bootstraps," but are kids still in elementary school responsible for yanking on their own straps?
I really don't have an answer. While I disagree with Conard – more on moral grounds than economic grounds – he's also done far more reading than me on the subject.
Before you write to tell me that I'm either a greedy capitalist or a lefty socialist (I admit, I'm giving evidence of both here), can you instead just read Conard's book? And then Piketty's Capital?
Sometimes I think the only solution to these arguments, at the individual level, is to consciously set out to read the things we'll probably disagree with.


Facebook was not the case on Wednesday for many users and didn't get the problems for hours. Also Facebook members in Germany reported since the late afternoon problems.
Facebook's photo platform Instagram and the chat service Messenger were partially affected also. The extent of the outage was unclear, Facebook language of "some people" that have problems.
short-term outages of Online services, although there are more and more frequent. That Facebook can't fix with his experience with the infrastructure for several billion users of the problems for several hours, however, is unusual. The Online network stressed probably because of that that the problems were not caused by a so-called DDOS-attack is triggered. In such attacks, the Server will be flooded selectively with requests until they go in the knee.


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Wrangler is a Central Web Interface to see detailed Information about multiple Rancher Management Servers.
 This is not a Web application for Rancher Server Federation (e.g Kubernetes Federation). In it's present state,
 this tool is very bare bones, Hosts added are then queried every so often for data via the API, such as the Server Version, Docker version, etc.

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SPS-215: Building on a Solid (SPF) Foundation – with Elle Thorpe
Elle Thorpe published her first books herself, and then, with the help of the SPF Foundation was able to learn about advertising from the SPF 101 course. Using what she learned, she increased her sales enough that her husband was able to quit his second job. Elle hopes to be able to afford for him to leave his remaining job very soon.
An update on the SPF Foundation
Elle Thorpe's start in self-publishing
Holding off on publishing until she had three novels
Progressing with writing from a hobby to a job
Enabling Elle's husband to quit his second job because of book income
Why persistence with advertising matters
Why stand-alone novels, that are also in a series, are a good idea
Trial books written while figuring out what writing processes work
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Elle Thorpe: I had a few friends that were just going down… my critique partners were going down the traditionally published side, and I was watching them with their query letters. And at one point, they convinced me they were like, "Come on, just try." And I did try for an open call and then I just self-published. Before I even heard back from them because yeah, it just wasn't for me.
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Join Indie bestseller, Mark Dawson, and first-time author James Blatch as they shine a light on the secrets of self-publishing success. This is The Self-Publishing Show. There's never been a better time to be a writer.
James Blatch: Hello, and welcome to The Self-Publishing Show with James Blatch.
Mark Dawson: And Mark Dawson. Wearing the same clothes as last week.
James Blatch: Yes, we're doing a little batch just two weeks in a row, which means by the time this goes out, it's frighteningly close to our live show-
Mark Dawson: Little Blatch. Little Blatch.
James Blatch: Little Blatch. Little Blatch.
Mark Dawson: Little Blatch.
James Blatch: You don't know why, why I call it Little Blatch.
Mark Dawson: No, I don't want a talk about Little Blatch, it's a terrible mistake.
James Blatch: So, when's this going out? We should work out how-
Mark Dawson: This is going out on the 28th of February.
James Blatch: 28th of February.
Mark Dawson: One episode, two episodes to go. This one and the next one and then it will be London.
James Blatch: Our live event, which if you're not coming to I'm sorry, if we're rattling on about a bit it. But it is obviously occupying us, we suddenly find ourselves organizing an 1000 person conference at the height of a worldwide pandemic, it was always our aim.
We want to write the next novel, the next novel will write itself. But we're very excited about that, and you still have a chance to join us digitally.
In fact, if you get in before the conference itself, March the 9th, if you go to selfpublishingformula.com/digital for 25 dollars, if you sign up before the conference, you'll get your 25 dollars back in the form of a voucher, and then you get full access to all the courses professionally produced, which will turn around in a couple of weeks afterwards, within a couple of weeks afterwards.
You also get access to the Self-Publishing Formula University, which is a place for regular live trainings, and excellent training we've had recently on that as well.
We can't do Patreons because we are pre-recording this, we'll catch up with them next week, but we are going to talk a little bit about our foundation.
Now we have, since we started the business, we set up a foundation to run alongside it to put some efforts and money back into the community. We were aware, when we sell the courses, that not everybody can afford them. We now hear from people who are struggling a little bit but clearly are talented, and no one wants to see talent go to waste.
So the foundation was there to try and pick up those individuals for whom that finance was just a barrier to getting started and getting going and realizing their potential as writers. And you can apply for it if you go to selfpublishingformula.com. You've got all year to apply for it before we decide and announce the next batch next January.
It's very likely that we are going to expand it this year because we've got two people I can think of have contacted us, and we will announce this more formally during the year, but an organization and an individual, both contacted us and offered a good amount of money to go into the foundation. So we could seriously expand it this year, be worth looking into.
Mark Dawson: Well, the expansion for the individual is actually starting this year. We're going to pick another one from this.
James Blatch: Oh.
Mark Dawson: So yeah, it's Marc Reklau who writes non-fiction, he's going to be at the conferences, actually going to be on the stage talking with Joseph Alexander about selling non-fiction, and Joseph sorry, Marc got touch and said that he'd like to support it because jokingly he said that he'd like to erect a statue.
James Blatch: Yes.
Mark Dawson: To us after he took the course and his life's changing out there. He's selling a lot of books, and he's very thankful for that. Now obviously we … I think, what was it he said? Who did he quote, someone doesn't like statues because birds crap on them basically. So he didn't want to do a statue.
But instead he'd like to contribute to the foundation, and so he's going to be sponsoring one foundation winner. So he's actually stumping up several thousand euros, so kudos to Marc. And I think Lucy said to me this morning that we're actually going to pick someone else from this year's crop. So he's going to start this year and then go forward, and I think we're talking about five years worth of sponsorship.
I'm very impressed with that. So we're going to pick another one. And we'll announce that in the community and probably on the podcast, when we've decided.
It'd be lovely if it was a non-fiction author but I don't… when we choose those people, I don't really make any kind of distinction as to what is being written.
James Blatch: Sure.
Mark Dawson: It could be any genre at all. So, it'll just be the quality of the writing and the opportunity as I see it, and Ricardo from Reedsy, and Marc as well. Marc can have some feedback onto who this one goes to you. So, yeah, we'll have more on that soon.
James Blatch: So just to make it clear, the extra person will be drawn from those applicants from 2019.
James Blatch: So there's no point in apply… well, you can absolutely apply in 2020. But we decided in the normal course of events in January.
Mark Dawson: Correct.
James Blatch: Good. Well, thank you Marc Reklau is a lovely guy, and he does feel in debt to you for your mastery. And I had a very nice time with Marc. He lives on a boat in Barcelona. I didn't hesitate to go out and visit him there. But he's going to come over and see us in London in a couple of weeks, which would be great.
That brings us on very nicely to the interview. It's with a writer called Elle Thorpe. Elle's a very trendy name because of Stranger Things now, of course, perfect timing for her.
And actually talking of timing, this interview was recorded at the very heart of the peak of the wildfires around Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, which was terrifying. It did an unbelievable amount of damage. I was right in the middle of it at that point, potentially had to evacuate if things turned the wrong way. I had to check my phone every day. And we do talk about that at the beginning interviews. Very interesting.
But aside from fighting wildfires, Elle has been one of the foundation recipients and she's taken that I think 2500 dollars of investment, more than that with the courses, got herself going and did exactly what the foundation is there for. She got her grounding and is now an author, making money, living off her writing, which is absolutely fantastic. So let's hear from Elle Thorpe.
Elle, welcome to the Self-Publishing Show.
Elle Thorpe: Thank you for having me.
James Blatch: It's dark and rainy here. But it's early morning, early-ish morning for you.
Elle Thorpe: Yeah, it's definitely not dark and raining here. It never rains in Sydney. It's sunny and eight o'clock.
James Blatch: We should start by saying that you're in the middle of a horrific episode of wildfires, which is capturing the world's attention at the moment.
Just tell us a little bit about that because you're in the Sydney area, right?
Elle Thorpe: I'm about an hour out of Sydney at my place. And there's a rather large fire burning in the Blue Mountains at the moment that has had us covered in smoke for maybe six weeks now, maybe a little bit longer. Most days it's just constant smoking, not letting kids outside to play because they're asthmatic.
We were supposed to go camping at the beginning of this year, but the campgrounds that we were supposed to go to down on the south coast were completely wiped out by bush fire. Our friends lost their house. Yeah, it's been really bad. So we're just praying for rain.
James Blatch: How awful. Our sympathies go to you and obviously, we'll join you in the rain dance to try and bring down the rain it needs a change in the weather, doesn't it?
Elle Thorpe: Absolutely.
James Blatch: Trying to imagine not letting the children out to play and not going for a run, which I know might be a blessing for some people but it curtails a huge amount of life doesn't it?
Elle Thorpe: Yeah. Especially with the kids on school holidays at the moment. Yeah.
James Blatch: Yeah. Okay. Well, look, we wish you well with that. Hopefully by the time this goes out, there's been better news.
Let's talk about happier things, which has been your ascent from somebody trying to get going in the whole writer world, the indie world, and with a little bit of help from us, we've helped along the way, which is a great part of the story, to where you are today.
Why don't we start sort of at the beginning with your writing career.
When did this become something that perhaps went from a hobby or an interest to an ambition?
Elle Thorpe: I started writing in my youngest daughter's… I have three kids, and I started writing in her nap times, probably five years ago, four years ago. And then yeah, it was just a hobby. And then I eventually wrote a few books that were terrible.
I finally hit one that I thought was good. And so I never really decided to do the trad company thing. I was never really interested. So just went straight down the self pub line.
Published that in September 2018. And I actually had it finished quite a while before that, but I held off publishing it. I was listening to podcasts. I was reading everything. I was on KBoards all the time.
I just knew that I should probably have a couple in the pipeline before I published. So I held off and I had three ready to go when I published in 2018. So then yeah, I had the first four books in that series out by the April of 2019.
It just didn't really do anything very exciting, to be honest. For a brand new newbie, who didn't know anything that they were doing, it wasn't too bad. I had some pre orders the first time, I made a few dollars, a couple of hundred here, a couple hundred there, which I was I was stoked.
I wasn't close to making my money back or anything like that. But I was stoked, because I was thinking my mom would read it, and that would be about it. So that's sort of where that all started.
James Blatch: Just to pick up on your decision to go indie right from the beginning.
Where did you start hearing about self-publishing? And at what point did you work out that it would be a better route for you?
Elle Thorpe: To be honest, I was aware of probably self-publishing as soon as that pretty much came to light. I wasn't in a place to do it. Because I think I was reading about self-publishing even before I was really writing with intent.
I was maybe writing 500 words here and 500 words there. But just the whole self-publishing thing really appealed to me. Even now, I still love doing all the marketing, I love doing all the extra, I love being the one woman business. So it just sort of really appealed to me.
I don't know whether it was maybe a little bit of self doubt, I was thinking, "Oh, I would never be able to traditionally publish a book, but I'm decent with computers, I can write this book." Trad publishing never really appealed to me.
And also I write things that… the hero of my first book, he's HIV positive. And I just thought it's going to be a tough slog to get this traditionally published. It's not mainstream.
I had a few friends that were just going down… my critique partners were going down the traditionally published side, and I was watching them with their query letters, and at one point they convinced me, they were like, Come on, just try."
I did try for an open call, and then I just saw published before I even heard from them because it just wasn't for me. And everybody on KBoards was so excited back in the day. It was exciting. And that's just where I wanted to be.
James Blatch: I tell you, that's interesting from my perspective doing these interviews, because it's gone in a fairly short order of time to almost everybody you speak to to was either traditionally published or trying to get traditionally published and eventually discovered one way or another self-publishing. To people who are right from the beginning know their audience on this subject and make that decision to go indie.
Elle Thorpe: I just knew where I wanted to be. And that's still where I want to be.
James Blatch: So you lined up a few books, which is good strategy and still is good strategy.
At some point I think you applied for the foundation that we offer at SPF.
Elle Thorpe: I think I had the first three books out, had those out by January last year. And the fourth was set to come out in April. And I think somewhere between the two of those, I heard about the foundation and the scholarship on the podcast, and immediately dismissed it. Said no, there's not a chance that I would ever win that.
So I let it go. And then one of my critique partners, Zoe Ashwood, she was applying for it. And she said to me, "Why aren't you applying? You've got these three books out, you're not really getting anywhere with them, just apply." She's like, "I am; you do it too."
I thought, okay. So we did it together. And then it just snowballed from there. I kept getting emails back that said, "You're through to the next round." And then I got another one that said, "You're through to the next round."
And the whole time I'm thinking, "I'm going to get kicked out at some point. At some point, somebody's going to realize that my books aren't that great, and I don't deserve to be here." And yeah, it didn't happen.
James Blatch: The old imposter syndrome.
Elle Thorpe: Oh, I have so much imposter syndrome. It's terrible. And especially even more so back then.
And then I nearly died when I got the email that said Mark is going to be reading some of your work. And that's the next level. And I thought, Oh, my goodness, I'm definitely gone now.
I finally got the email that said, yep, you're our winner. And it was just amazing. It was really good for my self confidence too. It meant a lot to me to just get that sort of nod that maybe I'm sort of doing things in the right way. And I'm heading in the right direction. And it was really good.
James Blatch: People have faith in you.
Elle Thorpe: And that's the thing about going indie. You don't really get any feedback. I have my critique partners. I got a lot of feedback from them. And I had a few books out. I had great reviews. I was really happy with the reviews, but it's just nice to have that industry nod as well. So yeah, I was very, very… there was a lot of excited screaming that day.
James Blatch: Yeah, well, brilliant. It's a chunk of money. I think it services up to about 3000 US dollars.
Elle Thorpe: I think it was about 2500. Yeah.
James Blatch: I should know the answer to this. It might be 3000 now, but at the time it was 2500-
Elle Thorpe: That's okay. Yeah.
James Blatch: I imagine from where you were, you suddenly had some decent money to spend on your marketing efforts.
How did you apply yourself at that point?
Elle Thorpe: Well, it was all very overwhelming in the beginning. But then, so it was the 2500 dollars from Reedsy plus access to all the marketing courses and the 101 course. And so it was a matter of working through all the material on the courses and getting my books.
I used the 2500, I'm still using it actually, I use that for editing through Reedsy. So I've had a whole year full of free editing, which was amazing.
James Blatch: Did you get your existing books, your published books edited?
Elle Thorpe: No, so I already had those edited. I had paid for those. Since 2019, I've written another four, three or four full length books. And so I've had some of those edited with that Reedsy money. So yeah, that's been nice. Very nice.
James Blatch: And you did the courses?
Elle Thorpe: Yes. The Ads for Authors was more where I was interested. As I said, I've done a few years of research, finding all the information that's in the 101 course I've done the hard way, reading it on KBoards. I wish I'd had that a few years earlier. But then the marketing course is what I needed, 100%.
I was trying to do Facebook ads. I had the four books out. I hadn't done any advertising, because everybody had said don't worry until you've got a few books and you've got something to sell through to. So I'd sort of left that alone.
But I just started trying to do Facebook ads and I was just failing miserably. I just needed somebody to say which buttons to tick and which… I was throwing money at the wall, basically, and getting nowhere. Yeah, so then the ads for this course is just really where I focused all my attention.
James Blatch: So the big question now is what difference it's made.
Elle Thorpe: A big difference. It's definitely gone from a hobby to my business and to my job. My goal at the beginning of 2019, my youngest daughter started school and I've been a stay at home mom for 10 years. And so I've never gone back to work, looking after the three kids.
My goal was that I free my husband from his second job. He's been working two jobs for 10 years. And working seven days most weeks because childcare here is just insane. So my goal was to get him out of that second job. And that's where we're at now.
So I did all the Facebook. Facebook was where I wanted to start, because I already had a little bit of background knowledge in that. As I said, I wasn't doing well with it, but I had a vague idea. And then, so I started going through those modules and worked out that I was basically doing everything wrong, and fixed them all up. And it wasn't very long. It was less than two weeks before I finished the course. And then hit an ad that started doing really well.
It came out of the blue. I had been trying to run ads on the first in my series, which is what everybody says to do. But I worked out pretty quickly that the third book in my series is my strongest book. And so I just started… I thought I'm just going to try and ad for this one, and that's the one that really took off.
They're a series of standalone romances. So each one can be read individually. But obviously for read through, you want to still start at the beginning. But at this point I was just sort of like, if I can get an ad to run, great.
It just started taking off. I started really, really small. I started at five dollars a day. And it came in, I think that very first ad came in at about six cents a click. And I just thought, okay, well this is different because until that point, I've been getting 30, 40 cents a click just rubbish ads. Which probably is okay for some people, but it just wasn't going to work, especially if I was basically marketing this book as a standalone.
So then that came in and then I left it for a few days, and then I added another five dollars. I could see my rank going up because I'm in Kindle unlimited. It's a bit hard always, I'm not always getting a lot of sales, but my page reads are going up.
I started just watching my rank, making sure my rank was dropping and my rates were continually going up, and I just kept adding money to it. And I wasn't even spending a lot. But at one point there, I was making about six times what I was spending on my ads.
James Blatch: 600% is a good return.
Elle Thorpe: It was a really good return. Those ads are brand new. That book had never been advertised before. And so it was kind of like my second launch, I suppose, for that book. And that's why. I wish it was still selling at six times, but it's still selling pretty good even a year later. So yeah, I'm really, really pleased.
James Blatch: When I listen to you talking, it reminds me that there are people who start with Facebook ads, don't get them working, give up and never go back to them and will tell anyone who listens that they don't work.
Elle Thorpe: No, you just got to keep trying. Maybe they don't work for some people, but I was in the same boat. I had spent at least two months before I started the course just putting an ad up every week and just looking at it and going okay.
I was doing all sorts of things, adding it to all locations and just not having good images, not having good… I was sort of using ad copy instead of using… I've found excerpts from my book work better in romance. I just wasn't getting anywhere.
But I kept going. I was determined to make it work. At some point I did know I need somebody to teach me how to do this. But yeah, absolutely. You just have to stick with it and keep trying.
And even now, a year later, I feel like I have a better grasp now. And I can generally sort of tell if an ad is going to work. Well, I have a vague idea, and I hope, I suppose, that this ad will work.
Most of the time I'm right. And sometimes I'm still wrong, and you just try again. You've just got to be willing to lose that money in the beginning because once you actually do get an ad that works… I've just been blown away by… as I said, it turned a hobby into a business. So yeah, very, very good.
James Blatch: You have an income that's enough to half retire your husband who, bless him, has been doing two jobs.
Elle Thorpe: He is an amazing man. And he's my number one supporter, even though he's never read any of my books. But he works incredibly hard. And for a long time, there was nothing I could do about it because we needed me to be home and we needed him to work.
It's not cheap to live in Sydney. He's been working so hard, and he's still employed by that second job, but he hasn't taken a shift in six months now. My income replaced his second job. Next goal is to just free him entirely from his job. He can be the stay at home mom for a while.
James Blatch: The retire your husband trend.
Elle Thorpe: I'd love to do it for him. He deserves it.
James Blatch: By the way, you write about Australia. When I was in Sydney, just looking at the papers about house rentals, and you see figures like 2700, and I'd thing that's not too bad a month, and it's a week. How can people live like this? It's so expensive. I don't understand the economy in Australia. TimTams are cheap, everything else is really expensive.
Elle Thorpe: We don't understand it either. We just scrape by. We're lucky. We got into the housing market when we were young. So it was a bit cheaper back then. But it's still not easy to do it on one income.
James Blatch: I've got another point about your writing, which I think is a really good takeaway. That is the thing about being standalone in a series because I do think there's a great advantage to having your books, even if they're a series, having the ability to read them as standalone novels.
If you write a series and you put so much effort into writing a series of six, seven, eight books, and if there is systemic problems with one or two of them, even if it's just one of them, if it's in the middle of it, you're sort of scuppered.
If you have to read them in order, if reading them out of order doesn't make any sense, if that's the way you've written, and of course, artistically, creatively, that's how some people want to write. And some people want to read. But if you get that with read-through being so important to get that drop off, there's almost nothing you can do about it. Unless you just bite the bullet, take that book out, completely rewrite, and whoever wants to go back and do that whole thing again.
Elle Thorpe: No, not me.
James Blatch: No. But having the ability to think Okay, so rather than running ads, and everyone's attention on that first one, in your case book three is doing well, and then people will go read book one, book two.
Elle Thorpe: And they do, yeah.
James Blatch: It's a small commercial point. But I think it's a very important one.
Elle Thorpe: Yeah, they absolutely do. Every time I start running an ad for that third book, I notice that my rank on book one will also drop as well, generally.
I am a big fan of Maria Lewis. And I know she does that with her books. I definitely took a bit of inspiration from her there. And it's completely right, especially in romance. If you do write a standalone series, it's great to have that read through.
But it is also good to have multiple places where people can jump in. And obviously, you want them to start at the beginning and read all the way through. But hey, if they go back as well, that's fine, too.
James Blatch: Good point.
Let's talk about the writing a little bit. You started on nap breaks. I can remember the early days of nap breaks, because I was at home a little bit as well, sleeping as well during that time, when you are awake at night. So you got a nap. Obviously, you got to the point where you didn't necessarily have to recharge your own batteries.
What drove you to start writing then? And what did you write?
Elle Thorpe: In the beginning, I wrote a paranormal romance or two, which was-
James Blatch: Is that what you were reading?
Elle Thorpe: I suppose that was born from the Twilight era because it wasn't too… I think it was probably in 2011-ish. Or maybe 2012 that I started doing that. I was a bit late on the Twilight train. But I was reading those then. And I think that's where that came from.
But it was terrible. That first book that I wrote, it was 70,000 words. It wasn't plotted out. I didn't outline at all then. It was just me sitting down every nap time and writing 1000 words or until my toddler spilled something or until my baby woke up or until I had to go pick the oldest one up from preschool or something.
But I was trying to write 1000 words a day, and then if the baby was still asleep, I'd jump on cable and so I was… So even back then, that was kind of my routine. I might have only had two hours a day, but I'd write for an hour and then I'd jump on cable and then I'd be researching for an hour or so until the baby woke up.
I wrote that paranormal. That was terrible. When I got to 75,000 words and I didn't even know where I was at with it. It was there was no conclusion in sight. So I scrapped it.
Then I wrote another book and did exactly the same thing, made all the same mistakes. That was terrible. So scrapped that.
And then finally, I think by that time… so we're probably in 2014 or maybe 2015 by this point. And by that time, I was reading a lot more contemporary by then and decided… I just wanted to write a book that had really strong conflict. I'd read a lot of books where it was just… you want that strong conflict between a hero and a heroine. And I just read a lot of books where it was just they didn't tell each other something and it was just silly.
So I started thinking, what can I write that has this conflict, and the conflict there was the hero has HIV, and he's HIV positive, or he's diagnosed with it throughout the course of the book anyway. So that's where that book came from, and that went on to be my debut, that one.
James Blatch: You were plotting at this point now?
Elle Thorpe: I plotted that one. I put that down. That's the only reason that book got finished. I wrote that for NANO in, I think, 2016. I didn't win. I only got the first 40,000 words. And then I was so exhausted. Back then I thought that writing 1600 words a day was painful. It was a real struggle to get that every day.
Then I was so tired by the end of it that I took three months off and didn't finish it until early the year after. And then it just went through a series of edits with editors and critique partners. And I've always had my critique partners by my side the whole time. Otherwise, I don't think I'd still be here. But so that's kind of where we went from there.
James Blatch: And just a quick one on the mechanics of your writing, and I'm always interested in how how people write.
Do you write in Scrivener, or in Word or?
Elle Thorpe: It's been a bit of back and forth. I do have Scrivener and I like it for first drafts. I liked it more in especially my earlier books, I wrote in Scrivener all the time because I really still was learning the mechanics, basically, the basics.
I still am learning, but the basics of writing and so I was getting scenes all out of order, and I really needed Scrivener to help me put them back in and move them around. And so then I would take them from Scrivener and edit them as I went into Word at that point because my editor needed it in Word. So I would take the good bits out of Scrivener and then rewrite all the rest of it.
I still love Scrivener. I do a lot of outlining in Scrivener because I like the cork board and I can see it all there, but I do tend to write now in Word, now that I've got my outlining system down a bit better, and I understand the beats of romance a bit better.
I find now that I can actually just write it in Word and I don't need to move things around as much. But again, that comes down to outlining, mostly, good outlining.
James Blatch: And what's your word count today? Not necessarily today, it's eight o'clock in the morning.
Elle Thorpe: It's only eight o'clock, James.
James Blatch: As in the general, these days, I should say.
Elle Thorpe: So normally I shoot just a minimum of 2000 words a day.
James Blatch: Wow. Okay.
Elle Thorpe: I just do that Monday to Friday, normally. Often, I'm getting more than that. But if I start telling myself… I tried saying to myself last year that I had to write 3000 words a day. And my mind just immediately went no, we're not doing that. So now often I do write more than 2000, but 2000 is my minimum. If I get to 2000 and I want to stop, I can.
James Blatch: Do you do that in one session?
Elle Thorpe: Mostly. Mostly, I drop the kids at school, I do half an hour of exercise, and then I just sit at the computer for the next hour and a half, two hours, and I make sure I get that 2000 words. If I'm writing more than 2000 words… I've had some days where I've written 10,000, 5000, those I definitely don't do all in one bit.
If I know I want a really big word count, if I'm at a really exciting part in the book, or if… I don't really, I don't work to close deadlines all that often. But if I do decide I want a big day, I'll get up at five o'clock in the morning and do two hours and then do another… I do them in blocks of two hours, normally. Two hours is about my focus limit.
James Blatch: Yeah. But even two hours…. I find that quite hard. Two hours would be a struggle for me. Now it's about 45 minutes is when I start getting antsy, and an hour's about limit for sitting there writing. Quite intensive experience, writing.
Elle Thorpe: Yeah, absolutely. It depends on my mood. Some days I don't find my flow until I'm sitting there for an hour. So sometimes I'm just sitting there plucking a few words here and there for an hour until I realize and I'll find a flow.
But I do find as well, the more words I write in one day, the more I get into that flow state, so sometimes it is worthwhile for me to just sit there and just force out… even if I'm forcing out half an hour of rubbishy words, I know that can fix later.
Sometimes it's worth it for me to do that to get into that flow state where the words start coming quickly. And they're normally good, they're the good words as well, when they come in quickly. Again, that comes back to a good outline, too. I'm all about the outline.
James Blatch: You've become a complete convert to the outline.
James Blatch: I think I'm sort of the same. I'm obviously nowhere near your status in terms of writing, but having gone through that period of writing NANO type things that never go anywhere, you then almost hate opening it because it's such a mess. You don't know where it begins, ends, and has no middle.
Elle Thorpe: It's very confusing when it's like that and you've got bits and pieces there.
James Blatch: Especially in a Word document where it takes half an hour to load in the first place. But yes, certainly when you're outlining, and I plot quite detailed now, quite look forward to it because you've got the freedom.
Elle Thorpe: Yeah, it's the fun part.
James Blatch: Yeah, you're writing the scene that you've already done the hard work in terms of working out-
Elle Thorpe: Absolutely. Outlining is by far my favorite part of writing. It's the part where you get to be all creative and you can write all the crazy ideas, but you're not wasting your time writing 10,000 words and then scrapping them.
I can just write a few bullet points and go, yes, that's just going to be amazing when I get to it. I love outlining.
James Blatch: So ambitions for 2020. We should say it's January we're recording this. So everyone thinks about the year ahead.
You're going to get your husband out of that second job.
Elle Thorpe: I don't know if that'll happen this year. But I hope that we're heading in that direction for sure. I've got a new series. Actually really the first one releases this Thursday, so it should be well and truly out by the time this airs.
I spent a lot of time last year, again, stockpiling books, so I've got two. I've actually got three, but one in another series, ready to go for this year. And I'm hoping to write another four, maybe five, depending. I'm hoping to up my word count a little bit this year. So I think we'll just say 2500 a day rather than that 3000 that seems to freak me out. I'm doing that.
James Blatch: Do you have weekends off?
Elle Thorpe: I do try to take weekends off because it's very hard, and I try to take my kids' school holidays off as well. It's just very hard to write with them home and they walk in every five minutes. As you can see, my office is in my bedroom. Just in the corner. I don't have a dedicated office.
I try not to write when they are home. I'm often doing other things, though. I will save my marketing and stuff like that for the weekends, if we're not doing family things, because I can do that when they're interrupting.
When I get into that word place, I don't want to be interrupted. But marketing, I do a lot of graphic design work. I can do all that sort of thing when they're home. And so that gets saved for the weekend.
James Blatch: In terms of genre, you seem pretty happy and comfortable with it with the area writing in now.
Any plans to expand out of that niche?
Elle Thorpe: Well I will always, always write some sort of romance. I love romance. That's where my heart is. If I'm writing something with no romance in it, I've been kidnapped or something, that's my-
James Blatch: Everything's got a bit of romance in it. Star Wars has got romance in it.
Elle Thorpe: Absolutely. There should be a romance in everything.
I've got Contemporary Cowboys coming out in January, and I do have a sci-fi romance written. I've written the first book. It's in editing at the moment, which I will likely release under a pen name, probably in April I want to say, around then maybe. But again, I might hold on to it until I've got the next one written as well. But at the moment, I'm full of cowboys at the moment.
James Blatch: Full of cowboys at the moment.
Elle Thorpe: Yeah, that sounds wrong.
James Blatch: That's a different podcast altogether.
Great. Well, it's brilliant to hear that you've gone on to great things. I know there are other foundation members who've also had that spark. It's been exactly what it was designed for. We look for people who have the potential, and you do the rest.
But you're the first one I've actually spoken to. We're remiss and disorganized, obviously, to go back and get the interviews done, but we will do that over time. But you're the first person, and it's delightful for us to see you smiling at your success, which is as it should be.
Elle Thorpe: Oh, good, I'm so glad. I've been just really stoked and over the moon with how everything is going, and I just hope it keeps… well, it will. I'm not going to say hope because it will. It will just keep bigger and better things from here on, even.
James Blatch: I keep saying this about going to Australia. It's not going to happen in 2020. But maybe we should put a marker down for 2021 and try and get over to to New Zealand and Australia because we've got so many people there.
Elle Thorpe: That would be amazing. Definitely.
James Blatch: It is a great part of the world, although obviously at the moment, you're being terrorized by these wildfires. And also in the middle of the interview, I don't know if you noticed, but I just noticed there was a spider hanging over my head, and I brushed it away. Now where you live, if I was in your house and I saw a spider over my head, I would leave the house because they can kill you.
Elle Thorpe: No, you just take your shoe off and you throw it. I keep telling everybody, just take your shoe off and kill it.
James Blatch: You're made of sterner stuff over there.
Elle Thorpe: You have to be, there's spiders everywhere.
James Blatch: The idea of gardening in New South Wales with those funnel webs ready to leap out at you, I'm out of that.
Elle Thorpe: I'm not much of a gardener. Not just for that reason, but it's one of them.
James Blatch: If it's not one thing, it's another that's going to get you in Australia, but I loved the country.
Elle Thorpe: There's plenty of things outside. It's better to just stay inside and write.
James Blatch: Indeed. We send you all the best for your situation at the moment in Australia. We're thrilled with your success, Elle, and yeah, I want to say thank you so much indeed for spend some time talking to us.
Elle Thorpe: Thank you. Thank you for having me, and just thank you to everyone that chose me to be… it really did make a difference. So I'm really appreciative.
James Blatch: There you go. So we wish everyone well in Australia for those events. Hopefully that's… haven't heard much for a while now.
Mark Dawson: They've had some rain, I think a lot of it is stopped now, but yes, pretty scary stuff.
James Blatch: It was terrifying for them. And well done, Elle. Really exciting to hear somebody get on like that and have that success.
Mark Dawson: Absolutely. It's great to see people having their talent recognized. And that can be recognized by way of good reviews, people joining their mailing list, or a way I quite like, people buying books and getting KU reads and actually making a bit of money. So it's lovely to see her doing so well.
James Blatch: You can't get drunk on compliments.
Mark Dawson: It's difficult. Yeah, absolutely.
James Blatch: Good. Okay. Excellent. Mark, thank you very much indeed. I think that's probably it. You and I are getting into high anxiety mode by the time this goes out.
Mark Dawson: You are.
James Blatch: You're just going to turn up.
Mark Dawson: I'm pretty chill. Yeah.
James Blatch: Who knows what's going to happen with the worldwide pandemic by the time this goes out? Things may have changed, but…
Mark Dawson: Yeah, exactly, but as it stands right now, we're looking forward to it, so it'll be…
James Blatch: No hugging.
Mark Dawson: No hugging, definitely no kissing.
James Blatch: Okay, I'm going to let you say the goodbye.
Mark Dawson: All right, see you. Oh, you want to do it properly, right? So yes, it's goodbye from me. And…
James Blatch: And a goodbye from him.
Mark Dawson: Goodbye.
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After three wins in England, Dublin super welterweight Bernard Roe made his Dublin pro debut at the National Stadium in June of last year.
Going upstairs and downstairs, Roe wore his opponent down and afterwards explained: "He had a tight guard but I had the confidence to mix it."
Impressed, promoter Frank Stacey said: "He has the potential to go wherever he wants in the game."
Roe was happy to be back in Dublin.
"For years Irish fighters had to leave the country to get good training," he told me.
"But now it's here in Dublin.
"My aim is to win an Irish title and take it from there."
A year ago, the night of Eric Donovan's pro debut, Roe seemed ready to lift-off.
But not everything went to plan.
"I was unlucky," explains Bernard.
"First, I got a back injury. Then I had a fight cancelled.
"After that I picked up a hand injury and then another fight fell through. I was off the map for a year."
The good news is Roe is ready to blast back into action on Celtic Clash 3 at the Stadium on September 9 and pick up where he was forced to leave off.
Resilience is an essential part of a successful pro boxer's character and Roe took the setbacks in his stride.
"I didn't let myself get down about it," he explains.
"I was still coming to the gym (the Celtic Warrior Gym) and the buzz here has always been great.
"There's an air of positivity around the place. It feels great. I love it."
With Gary 'Spike' O'Sullivan, Luke Keeler and Craig O'Brien as training partners, Roe hasn't been wanting for top-class sparring.
"Luke Keeler was preparing for an Irish title, which he won," says Bernard.
"Craig O'Brien is training for a BUI Celtic light middleweight belt. Spike will be fighting in the States on ESPN. It's brilliant to be mixing with these guys."
Far from lamenting his bad luck, Roe is brimming with confidence.
"I should be 8 and 0," he says. "But I'm back on track and am starting to build the buzz up again. Right now I feel I'll be knocking on the door early next year."
He hasn't been going to the gym just to keep fit.
"I've been working on stuff," he says. "As Paschal (Collins) says, 'You don't train, you practice'.
"I've been learning and perfecting all the techniques that you need in the pro game."
"It's great to be back," he says.
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Der Bergische Löwe ist das Wappentier des ehemaligen Herzogtums Berg. Heute führen ihn noch viele dort gelegene Gemeinden, Städte und Kreise, aber auch Unternehmen und Vereine in ihrem Wappen.

Ursprung
Bei dem als Bergischen Löwen bezeichneten Wappentier handelt es sich dem Ursprung nach um den Limburgischen Löwen. Diesen Löwen fügte Heinrich IV. von Limburg in das Bergische Wappen ein, nachdem die Grafenwürde von Berg im Erbgang an seine Frau Irmgard von Berg gefallen war. Der letzte Graf aus dem alten Hause Berg war Engelbert II. Graf von Berg, welcher schon seit 1216 Erzbischof von Köln – genannt Engelbert I. von Köln – war. Engelbert besetzte Berg nach dem Tod seines Bruders Adolf, der 1218 vor Damiette gefallen war, und führte Krieg mit den Limburgern. Durch den Frieden von 1220 zwischen Engelbert und den Limburgern wurde der Erbgang von Engelbert zu Heinrich geregelt, dieser sollte erst nach Engelberts Tod erben. Heinrich übernahm sehr kurz nach dem gewaltsamen Tod von Graf Engelbert II. im Jahre 1225 die Herrschaft über die Grafschaft, die seiner Frau Irmgard als Erbin Adolfs schon im Jahre 1218 zugestanden hätte. Sein Schwager Friedrich von Isenberg wurde für die Ermordung seines Vetters Engelbert von Berg/Köln im Jahr darauf vor dem Kölner Severinstor auf das Rad geflochten.

Darstellung
Im Bergischen Wappen wird der Bergische Löwe rot in silbernem (weißen) Feld dargestellt. Im Gegensatz zu dem Limburger Löwen trägt er eine blaue Krone und Bewehrung. Früher trug der Bergische Löwe ebenso wie der Limburger eine goldene Krone. Erst in einer Quelle des 16. Jahrhunderts erscheint er blaubekrönt. Sowohl der Limburger Löwe als auch der Bergische sind doppelschwänzig ausgeführt – als geteilter und gekreuzter Schwanz. Im Rahmen von Wappenbeschreibungen werden die ausgeschlagene Zunge und die Krallen als Waffen oder Bewehrung bezeichnet. Ihre Tingierung wechselte beim Bergischen Löwen zwischen Rot und Blau. Als sich im 19. Jahrhundert die blaue Krone durchsetzte, blieb die Bewehrung blau. Der Historiker Bernhard Vollmer sah dadurch die bergische Stahlerzeugung trefflich symbolisiert. Die großen ausgreifenden Pranken werden in Wappenbeschreibungen nicht sonderlich erwähnt, da diese Stellung die typische ist. Der aufgerichtete Löwe ist als Wappentier eine gemeine Figur im Wappenwesen. Er hat die steigende Standardwappenposition. Auch seine Blickrichtung nach rechts ist in der Heraldik Standard und wird in der Wappenbeschreibung nicht gesondert genannt.

Viele Bergische Städte und Gemeinden sowie Unternehmen oder Vereine haben den Bergischen Löwen in ihrem Wappen eingeführt, häufig wird er mit verschiedenen Geräten, wie Schwertern, Ankern, Schlüsseln, landwirtschaftlichen Geräten oder sonstigen Symbolen verziert. In diesem Fall wird die Pranke erwähnt. Ein Überblick gibt die Liste der Wappen mit dem Bergischen Löwen.

Der Bergische Löwe in Düsseldorf

Der Bergische Löwe wurde, wohl über das Düsseldorfer Schöffensiegel, eine Figur des Wappens Düsseldorfs und daran anknüpfend der Namensgeber des Düsseldorfer Löwensenfs.

Anfang Januar 1916 wurde ein hölzernes Standbild des Bergischen Löwen als "Kriegswahrzeichen" (Nagelfigur zur Kriegsnagelung) am Ende der Königsallee beim Graf-Adolf-Platz auf einem Sockel aus Muschelkalk errichtet. Die vom Düsseldorfer Bildhauer Johannes Knubel geschaffene, überlebensgroße Skulptur wurde mit Nägeln aus Eisen und Bronze beschlagen, deren Verkaufserlös zur Linderung der Kriegsnot beitrug – auf diese Weise kamen bis Januar 1917 beachtliche 800.000 Mark zusammen. Die mit Nägeln und Plaketten belegte Holzskulptur war bis 1934 so stark verwittert, dass man sie abtrug. Die bronzene Maske des Löwenkopfs und einige mit Inschriften versehene Plaketten wurden dem Stadtmuseum übergeben. Knubel schuf bis 1937 einen neuen Löwen aus Teakholz, der 1942 bei einem Bombenangriff schwer beschädigt und anschließend abgeräumt wurde. Der Kopf des zweiten Löwen kam ebenfalls in das Stadtmuseum.

Erst 1963, zur 675-Jahr-Feier der Stadt, wurde dann vom Bankhaus C. G. Trinkaus (aus Anlass seines 175-jährigen Bestehens 1960) ein neuer Löwe aus Bronze gestiftet, der vom Bildhauer Philipp Harth geschaffen und von der Kunstgießerei Schmäke gegossen wurde. Er steht seit seiner Enthüllung am 14. September 1963 am südlichen Ende des Grabens an der Königsallee.

Siehe auch
 Liste der Wappen mit dem Bergischen Löwen

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Einzelnachweise

Kultur (Wuppertal)
Feste und Brauchtum (Düsseldorf)
Kultur (Kreis Mettmann)
Berg
Bergisches Land
Kriegsnagelung

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The race to the Republican presidential nomination continues Saturday with the Maine caucus. CNN.com Live is your home for up-to-the-minute coverage from the campaign trail.
Today's programming highlights...
7:45 am ET - Romney in Virginia - GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney begins his day in Reston, Virginia, where he'll address the Northern Virginia Technology Council.
9:00 am ET - CPAC continues - Day two of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington begins with remarks by former Arkansas governor and soon-to-be radio talk show host Mike Huckabee.
9:00 am ET - Greece debates debt crisis - Former Greek prime minister George Papandreou will address members of his PASOK party on why he's supporting a controversial bailout deal and austerity plan.
10:20 am ET - Presidential candidates at CPAC - Rick Santorum will speak to CPAC attendees in Washington. Two of Santorum's rivals in the GOP presidential race will also address CPAC - Mitt Romney at 12: 40 pm ET and Newt Gingrich at 4:00 pm ET.
5:00 pm ET - Romney's Maine town hall - GOP candidate Mitt Romney concludes his day in Portland, Maine, where he'll hold a town hall-style meeting.
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Yes, but how do you REALLY feel?
February 10, 2012 at 8:45 am | Report abuse |
gung hoe
Mournin banasy LMAO. Thank god theyre live events and not dead.
Hey, gung, what's the haps?
When are you going to ask real questions at these debates. Woman in the Army or contraceptives shouldn't even be brought up. The economy is in the tank, there are no jobs, we have the enemy coming over the border. We are paying up the ass to other countries that hate us. China is hacking our drones. Their stealing our money and laughing at us. Is that the best you can do?
February 10, 2012 at 1:03 pm | Report abuse |
It's an election year, Marylou.
Those topics such as women and their reproductive rights are a tried and true means of obfuscating the real issues.
saywhat
@ banasy
"obfuscating the real issue" is exactly what it is. Rightly said.
@ Marylou
Military spending, Afghan open ended debacle, looming third war, education, health care, infrastructure. All critical issues.
On dole outs President Obama is to present the military budget 2013 very soon with a $ 3.1 billion of US tax payers funds to an "ally". Guess who? But we are a charitable people , we can do without a lot even food just to keep that gravy train going to our "ally".
We need to completly cut off all aid to ALL countries and start taking care of our own and make damm sure our government does not dip into the money for their own greed!
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I really feel this government has forgotten its obligation to It's very own people . Ron Paul 2012.
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Alex Bregman and Nelson Cruz led the Major Leagues during the month of June in home runs with 11. Paul Goldschmidt, Max Muncy, and Jesus Aguilar each had 10.
Paul Goldschmidt also led the Majors in batting average with a .364 during the month of June. Albert Almora was second with a .363 batting average. Gerardo Parra and Jose Altuve were tied for third with a .354 batting average. None of these players were top five in the BABIP department though. Ian happ had the highest BABIP with a .450. Derek Dietrich was second with a .429. Javy baez was third with a .429 BABIP. Alcides Escobar had the lowest average and BABIP among qualified hitters with a .115 average and a .127 BABIP. CJ Cron had the second lowest average (.115) and the third lowest BABIP (.146) in the Majors. Jonathan Schoop had the fourth lowest average (.144) and the third lowest BABIP (.139). Joey Gallo registered the third lowest average with a .143 mark.
Starling Marte led the Majors in stolen bases during the month of June with 8. Jose Ramirez had the second most with 7. Six players had six steals (Jose Altuve, Javier Baez, Andrew Benintendi, Trea Turner, Delino DeShields, and Billy Hamilton.) Four players had four caught stealings during the month, Trevor Story, Jean Segura, Manuel Margot, Tim Anderson.
Adrian Beltre stated to reporters that if he plays in 2019, he wants it to be with the Rangers. Beltre is showing some loyalty to the Texas fans, but this makes you wonder if it means that he will veto a trade to another organization. Beltre has been rumored to be on the trade block, but he has a full no-trade clause in his contract and could exercise it to stay in Texas.
Jorge Polanco will make his return from his 80-game suspension for performance enhancing drugs. Polanco played well in AAA as he ramped up to be activated, hitting .462/.533/.615 in four games. He should slide right back in at shortstop for the Twins.
Desclafani has been ok so far this year and if he can keep the ball in the yard, that would push him up a bunch. The White Sox have the lowest BB/K in the Majors this year against right-handed pitchers.
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Celso Camacho Quiroz is a fourth-generation Mexican potter who works in Metepec, in the State of Mexico. His specialty is the making of large cooking vessels called "cazuelas," traditionally used to cook mole and rice, but he also makes a number of other utilitarian and decorative pieces. His work has been recognized with awards such as the Gran Premio de Arte Popular from FONART in 1999 and being named a "grand master" by the Fomento Cultural Banamex in 2003.

Life
Camacho Quiroz is a fourth generation potter, learning the craft from his parents. Both his parents worked in clay, with his father specializing in the making of incense burners and small items such as cups. His mother specialized in large cooking pots called "cazuelas," traditionally used for making mole and rice. He began working in clay as a small child, helping his mother create cups and other small vessels which provides most of the family's income at the time. They shaped pieces from Monday to Friday, with firing done on weekends and sell and even trade them for other goods at the traditional "tianguis" market in Metepec. Camacho Quiroz continued working in ceramics even though he attended university. He left school when his parents died, first his father and soon after, his mother. All of his siblings also learned to work in clay and relied on it for income at some point in their lives, but today only the boys of the family are still potters.

Today, the artisan works with his wife and children. His wife, Ivette Camacho Rodriguez, studied ceramics at the Centro Cultural MOA. She makes pieces in Talavera style and has won awards in competitions in Metepec and with FONART. She also teaches her techniques to pre schoolers. His two children also work in ceramics and have participated in artistic competitions for youth organized by the government of Metepec.

Career
Camacho Quiroz is best known for his large cazuela cooking pots, which are a traditional ware in Metepec. Most of his income derives from them, but most are not sold for cooking but rather as decorative elements and can be found on walls in homes, restaurants and offices. He also makes large and small flowerpots, jugs for serving pulque and various other utilitarian and decorative pieces. Certain pieces, such as trees of life, are made only to order.

His work can be found part of the collections of the Frankfurt Museum and other museums in Europe.  He regularly competes in Metepec's most important competition, the Leyendas Vivientes de FONART.

The artisan has won various important recognitions for his work such as the Gran Premio de Arte Popular from FONART in 1999, and awards at the Premio Nacional de Arte Popular in Oaxaca and the Concurso Nacional de Cerámica in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco. He was named a "grand master" by the Fomento Cultural Banamex in 2003.

Artistry
Camacho Quiroz works with red and yellow clays mined from the nearby town of Ocotitlán. He cleans the masses and along with others in this town, engages in the tradition of laying the clays on the street to be pulverized by passing cars. The final grinding to a powder is done by hand with a heavy stone in small quantities. To work the clay into forms, it is first wetted and then "plumilla" cattail fluff is added as a temper. Certain pieces, such as flowerpots are made using molds, pressing thin "pancakes" of clay into shape. Then pieces are dried in the sun before being smoothed with stones and other tools. Firing is done in a circular kiln. The first time is done terra cotta and the second is done after painting and glazing.

His specialty is the making of large, heavy cooking vessels called "cazuelas." As many of his pieces are used for decoration, motifs are important.  Turkeys appear frequently as a decorative element in his work, "as a traditional sign of America." He also paints butterflies, as symbols of perfection and strength. Other designs include various plants, animals and flowers.

He changed to non-leaded glazes in order to be able to sell his ware more widely in Mexico and abroad. He has been experimenting with ceramics of higher temperatures and other techniques, combining them with more traditional ones.

External links
  Photos of Camacho Quiroz's work by Laura Cohen

References

Mexican potters
Living people
People from Metepec (México)
Year of birth missing (living people)


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Player Profile: #34 Onyekachi Apam
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By popular vote no player had less of an influence on the 2014 double than zero competitive minutes played Onyekachi Apam. Signed as an unseen flyer to a barely-above-minimum-salary contract, Apam played a single half in Reserve competition. He is currently a free.
Apam's tiny amount of minutes showed no significant threat of entering the attack whether in run-of-play or in set-pieces.
Where most MLS CBs get by through physical confrontation Apam's defense centers around speed and reading of the game. In his few moments you could see where he wanted to be, but he couldn't get there quite in time.
Physique:
Onyekachi is small and, when healthy, fast. He does have a broad base. The physique, when fit, shows promise, but not enough promise to see if he can regain the promise that had him desired by top teams around the world.
Best Case 2015:
If Apam can regain fitness, and he may, he would be intriguing in less physical leagues, or on a team with a defender that is similar to Marshall. He could get an invite to Sounders training camp just to see what happens.


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